Amid the outrage over allegations of gang rape of a medical student at Durgapur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks on Sunday (October 11, 2025) asking girl students residing in hostels not to venture out at night triggered a fresh controversy.
RJD president Lalu Prasad gave away party tickets to candidates favoured by him, unfazed by inability of the INDIA bloc, helmed in Bihar by the Rashtriya Janata Dal, to formally announce a plan for seat-sharing.
The ruling NDA on Sunday announced its seat share deal with BJP and JD(U) bagging 101 seats each, while union minister Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will contest 29 seats in the elections to the 243-member Assembly. Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and former union minister Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) will contest six seats each.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received an official invitation from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to attend the upcoming Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, as per media reports. However, PM Modi will not attend in person. Instead, the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed that Minister of State Kirti Vardhan Singh will represent India at the high-level summit.
Nearly 26 BJP MLAs from Manipur, including former Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, arrived in Delhi starting October 4 to push for the restoration of the state government. However, they have not been able to secure a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah or BJP national president J.P. Nadda.
A former vice chancellor to retired bureaucrats, lawyers, doctors, actors, social activists and local public representatives are among the fresh faces who feature in the first list of Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) as the political organisation of poll strategist Prashant Kishor (PK) makes its electoral debut in the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
One point two hundred thousand Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) are to be deployed in Bihar to make the upcoming Assembly elections free, fair, and peaceful in all 243 constituencies of the state.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (October 8, 2025) cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he should not always place his trust in Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Speaking on a range of issues, including the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, Ms. Banerjee alleged that Mr. Shah was “behaving like an acting Prime Minister
A high-level All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) delegation which came to Agartala to show solidarity following vandalism of TMC office in Agartala staged a sit-in near the departure block in the airport, accusing authorities of deliberately creating obstacles
The upcoming assembly elections in Bihar have an estimated first-time voter population of more than 5,700 per constituency an outcome that is likely to be decisive considering the narrowing victory margins being experienced in recent surveys.
